This is the 2015 Range Rover Sport SVR

Sporty Spice joins the band.

Land Rover just rolled out the first vehicle in the company's new high-performance line: The 2015 Range Rover Sport SVR. There's a supercharged 5.0-liter V8 under the hood good for 550 horsepower and 502 pound-feet of torque. The gearbox is bolted to an eight-speed automatic, and Land Rover says the kit's good enough to punch the big SUV to 60 mph in 4.5 seconds. Top speed sits at a lofty 162 mph.

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For reasons that remain unclear, Land Rover took the Range Rover Sport SVR to the Nurburgring, where it cranked out a time of 8:14. Pretty snappy for a big four-wheel drive monster.

Much of the power increase comes from a tweaked engine management system, which was able to pull an extra 40 hp and 41 lb-ft of torque from the all-aluminum V8. Engineers also reworked the transmission's shift logic, and the eight-speed can swap cogs up to 50 percent quicker than the gearbox found in a standard Range Rover Sport.